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解説 Definition
方言的・古風な言い方で、遊びに使うビー玉を指します。複数形 mibs は、複数のビー玉やビー玉遊びを表すこともあります。
A dialectal or old-fashioned term for a marble used in a children’s game. The plural mibs may refer to the marbles collectively or to the game played with them.
使い方 Usage
使い分け Common distinctions
- marble が現代の一般的な呼び方です。mib は方言や古い文章、昔の遊びの説明などに現れます。 Marble is the usual modern word. Mib occurs in dialect, older writing, or descriptions of traditional games.
覚え方のコツ Memory Tip
子どもがビー玉をはじいたり集めたりする場面と、短い呼び名 mib を結び付けましょう。語源の説明より、遊びの情景を手掛かりに覚えます。
Picture a child shooting or collecting marbles, and connect that scene with the short word mib. Use the game as your memory anchor rather than relying on an uncertain account of the word’s origin.
例文
She shot a mib toward the circle.
彼女は円を目がけてビー玉をはじきました。
The children played mibs in the yard.
子どもたちは庭でビー玉遊びをしました。
mib の類義語・関連語
類義語
派生語
mib の語源・成り立ち Etymology
方言語 mib は、marble（ビー玉）が短縮・変形した語と考えられているが、詳しい成立過程は確定していない。複数形 mibs はビー玉遊びの名称としても使われる。
The origin of mib is not securely established. It is recorded as a dialectal term for a playing marble and is generally treated as a shortened or altered form associated with marble. Its plural, mibs, has also been used for marbles collectively and for the game played with them. Since the details of its early development are uncertain, the safest description is that it belongs to regional and children’s play vocabulary rather than to a clearly documented process of formal abbreviation.
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